Posts Tagged ‘global warming’

Today’s link is to an article that takes Al Gore’s latest ‘defense’ of his position regarding ‘global warming’ (or, is it global climate change?) to task:

http://www.foxnews.com/scitech/2010/03/02/als-latest-global-warming-whopper/?test=latestnews

Look’s like many are not just going to roll over, Al!  Definitely taking you to the woodshed……

Well, not so much.  Just a long, drawn out diatribe (published by the New York Times of course) chastising the world community (and the United States in particular) that we are dropping the ball by thinking record snowfall and cold temperatures around the world have anything to do with proving his theory as wrong.  He even goes so far as to posit that the cold temperatures during January only proves that it was the second warmest January in the last 130 years!

Here is the whole article, should you want to read it:

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/02/28/opinion/28gore.html?pagewanted=print

Be warned, however: it is chock full of ‘talking points’ so don’t get your hopes up.  Even where he ‘admits’ errors, he words it carefully to still give the flavor of those errors being cloaked in a garment of hatred and denial.  Here is but one example:

“It is true that the climate panel published a flawed overestimate of the melting rate of debris-covered glaciers in the Himalayas, and used information about the Netherlands provided to it by the government, which was later found to be partly inaccurate. In addition, e-mail messages stolen from the University of East Anglia in Britain showed that scientists besieged by an onslaught of hostile, make-work demands from climate skeptics may not have adequately followed the requirements of the British freedom of information law.” (bold emphasis mine)

He and his ilk are not going to give up, folks.  There is too much pride to defend and too much money to be made.

There is also something that is even more sinister in all this and the following quote is very telling:

“From the standpoint of governance, what is at stake is our ability to use the rule of law as an instrument of human redemption.”

Still believe this isn’t a religion?

Today’s link is to an article that succinctly sums up the climate debate thus far.  Aptly titled “Al Gore’s Nine Lies” (of which I suspect it to be a spin on the “nine lives” phrase), it reveals just how short-sighted humans can be when predicting doom and gloom.  It also points out how ’sound bite oriented’ our society has become and the danger that, just as surely as spring follows winter, we will soon forget all the record snowfall and low temperatures due to it getting hotter and dryer!  At that time, Al and his cohorts will once again crank up the fearmongering that is currently referred to as ‘global climate change’:

http://www.investors.com/NewsAndAnalysis/Article.aspx?id=522005

The question is: will we remember digging out from all that ‘global warming induced’ snow four months from now, or once again believe just how powerful an influence we have on the planet and try to throw some more PC money at the problem to assuage our collective guilt by being way too prosperous a country?

“The flogging will continue until we have learned our lesson”…..